Baby Boomers Research Paper

A generation is a group of individuals who are born at a specific time period. Generations range from every alphabet letter known to man. I myself, am from generation Y. This is the generation that has become victims to so many trends and fads of this world. The Y generation differs in many things from the baby boomer 's generation. A baby boomer was born between the years of 1946 and 1964. They were given this name because of the soldiers coming home from war, and making love to their wives/significant other. This was the biggest population period of humans known to mankind. One in every four Americans is a baby boomer. According to statistics, a baby boomer turns 50 years old every 18 seconds and 60 years old every seven seconds. Baby boomer 's political views were a mixture of liberal and conservative. According to statistics, 74% of baby boomers are favor of more environmental regulations, 57%
High school completion rates are decreasing by the years now, and these are because of generation Y children. Clothing styles are much more important to generation Y too. From the aeropostale phase, to the north face jackets, to the Sperry shoes, once they break in everyone just has to start wearing it. The baby boomers didn 't really care about what they wore. As long as they had clothes on their backs, it was okay. Not everyone had cars in the time of the baby boom generation, but now-a-days, if you don 't have a car, you must be broke or something isn 't right with you. Having a car now is much more important to generation y than it was to the baby boomers generation. These things though are just norms that generation Y has. Having a car is the norm, being socialable is the social norm, being stylish is a norm, and their are many other norms that would have went against what the generation of the baby boomers considered to be a